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television and film producer and author
$ 438 million
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Mark Burnett was previously married to Dianne J. Burnett. They have two sons from this relationship, James, and Cameron. The couple divorced in 2006. He started dating Roma Downey in January 2004.The pair later married on 28 April 2007 in their Malibu home. His second marriage is going strong as there is no news regarding any extramarital affairs at present.
Who is Check Burnett?
Mark Burnett is an English TV and film maker and creator. He is a pleased beneficiary of twelve Emmy Honors, and five Makers Society of America Awards. Additionally, he is the official maker of 'The Voice', 'Survivor' and, 'Shark Tank' among others.
Mark Burnett's Initial Life, Adolescence, and Education
Burnett was conceived in London on July 17, 1960, to guardians Archie and Jean Burnett. The two his folks were Passage Engines production line workers. Throughout the greater part of his youth years, he experienced childhood in Dagenham, Essex. He is of American and English nationality. Moreover, he has a place with English ethnic background. Talking about his instruction, there are no points of interest accessible about Burnett 's instructive background.
Mark Burnett's Profession, Compensation and Net Worth
Burnett at first joined the English Armed force and turned into a Segment Officer. Subsequent to surrendering his military vocation, later, he emigrated to the Unified States in October 1982. Soon, he started filling in as a caretaker for affluent families and offering Shirts on Venice Shoreline. Furthermore, he made and started creating a show archiving the occasion for USA System, 'Eco-Challenge'. Furthermore, Burnett filled in as official maker for unscripted television demonstrate 'Survivor' in 2000. Before long, he chipped away at a few other TV programs including 'The Disciple', 'The Voice', and 'American Icon'. As a maker, he has taken a shot at TV arrangement like 'Technical knockout: Add up to Thump Out', 'Luis Miguel: La Serie', 'Steve Harvey's Funderdome', 'Are You More brilliant Than a fifth Grader?', 'A.D. The Book of scriptures Proceeds with', 'Lucha Underground', 'The Good book', 'The Activity', 'Spook Beatdown', 'School Spirits', 'The VIP Understudy Australia', 'Campaign Unthinkable', 'Sarah Palin's The Frozen North', 'How'd You Get So Rich?', 'Undertaking Africa', 'The Contender', 'Amne$ia', 'On the Part', 'Diili', 'Commando Babysitter' and 'Motel: North Shore' among others. In expansion, Burnett additionally has 22 credits as an author, 3 credits as an executive and 2 credits as a performer. He created the film 'Ben-Hur' in 2016. Burnett has won 9 Primetime Emmy Honors in his profession. Moreover, he has likewise won six Individuals' Decision Honors, five Makers Society of America Honors, and seven Pundits' Decision TV Honors. With everything taken into account, he has 20 wins and 25 selections to his name to date. Burnett has not uncovered his present pay. Be that as it may, he has an expected total assets of around $ 438 million at present.
Mark Burnett's Bits of gossip and Controversy
Burnett turned out to be a piece of a feedback after he was blamed for being master Trump. Furthermore, his show 'The Good book' additionally turned out to be a piece of a few discussions because of the physical similitude of the performer playing Satan to Pres. Barack Obama. At present, there are no gossipy tidbits concerning his life and career.
Mark Burnett's Body Measurements
Talking about his body estimation, Burnett has a tallness of 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m). Moreover, his hair shading is dim darker and eye shading is light brown.
Mark Burnett's Social Media
Burnett is dynamic over the online networking. He has a colossal number of adherents on long range interpersonal communication locales, for example, Twitter and Instagram. He has in excess of 210k adherents on Twitter. Likewise, he has in excess of 25k devotees on Instagram. References: (therichest.com, variety.com, deadline.com, hollywoodreporter.com) Updated On Sat Oct 06 2018 Published On Sat Oct 06 2018 By Married Bio

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The Global Compact for Migration. Towards Global Governance of International Migration? Notes de l'Ifri, February 2019
The "Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration" was adopted in Marrakesh on 10 and 11 December 2018, after 18 months of consultation and negotiation. It is presented as the first United Nations' agreement on a comprehensive approach to international migration in all its aspects.
Although it aims to become the cornerstone of global governance of international migration, sought by the international community, it is however coming up against contradicting national priorities. They are depending on each State's migration issues; at the mercy of opposition between North and South, the countries of origin and countries of destination.
Furthermore, the Compact illustrates a change in the objectives of global governance of migration, which were originally placed in the post-War context, under the human rights label. At the beginning of the 1990s and the end of communist regimes, migration was perceived as a risk for the stability and security of States. The United Nations then renewed its approach by rather emphasising the positive contribution of migration as a development factor. By highlighting the costs and benefits of migration flows, this approach can reconcile border control policies and the fight against irregular immigration in Northern countries.
The instruments of global governance of migration illustrate this change. The rights-based approach resulted in the 1990 International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. This approach was limited by the refusal of Northern countries to ratify it. Nearly 30 years later, the Global Compact for Migration is pursuing a more pragmatic approach. The agreement is non-legally binding. It reflects a preference for soft law instruments that are able to respond to issues in a more targeted and flexible manner.
The challenge of the Compact goes beyond mere migration issues and affects the role of the United Nations' (UN) against a background of questioning multilateralism. The managerial approach to migration promoted by the Compact allows the UN to play a technical support role to States on a voluntary basis. This also leads to a development of different agencies, giving a key role to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
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En ichtyologie, le nom vernaculaire poisson-dragon désigne plusieurs espèces de poissons de l'ordre des Stomiiformes, se trouvant dans les eaux profondes de la zone mésopélagique.

Dentition
Une étude publiée en 2019 montre, à partir de  prélevées sur  Aristostomias scintillans, qu'ils ont comme chez la plupart des espèces une couche interne de dentine, mais qui est chez cette espèce  entourée d'une couche externe d'un émail particulier, qui contient des nanocristaux absorbant la lumière, ce qui camoufle la dentition à ses proies luminescentes.

Le reste de la bouche est noir de jais et c'est probablement aussi pour cette raison que ses dents sont plus fines que celle de tous les autres prédateurs. Cette espèce ne mesure que  environ de long, mais peut tuer une proie faisant la moitié de sa taille ; cette découverte présente un intérêt en termes de biomimétisme.

Liste des espèces
 Genre Aristostomias
 Aristostomias grimaldii
 Aristostomias lunifer
 Aristostomias polydactylus
 Aristostomias scintillans
 Aristostomias tittmanni
 Aristostomias xenostoma
 Genre Idiacanthus
 Idiacanthus antrostomus
 Idiacanthus atlanticus
 Idiacanthus fasciola
 Genre Malacosteus
 Malacosteus australis
 Malacosteus niger
 Genre Pachystomias
 Pachystomias microdon
 Genre Stomias
 Stomias affinis
 Stomias atriventer
 Stomias boa
 Stomias brevibarbatus
 Stomias danae
 Stomias gracilis
 Stomias lampropeltis
 Stomias longibarbatus
 Stomias nebulosus

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Poisson (nom vernaculaire)
Nom de poisson ambigu
Taxon intéressant la biomimétique

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The various drop-down menus offer a wealth of Digital Literacy knowledge. Under "Teaching Strategies" you can find helpful tips for bringing coding, multimedia digital storytelling, and more to your classroom. It also has a section on how to deal with digital distractions in our modern classrooms.
Uses: This website offers a plethora of different articles, videos, and tips. It is relevant for any classroom. Though it may be directed, partially, to elementary classes the information is still relevant.
There are a wealth of digital tools listed here. If you find yourself still wanting, having already looked at the Top 10 Digital Tools, and More Digital Tools, you need look no farther than the AASL: Best Websites for Teaching & Learning.
This website is updated each year, and the archives can be just as useful as the present collection.
Keeping up with the changing digital landscape can seem like an impossible task. But you don't need to be aware of everything, all the time. Find two or three tools you really like, consider how they can be used to enhance and explore key literacy skills, and introduce them to your students.
If you add one or two new tools every year, you'll not only stay engaged and interested in your teaching, but also find your toolbox filling in no time.


This blog post is about getting Kodi up and running with Netflix on Raspbian. This is not a tutorial, more a collection of notes for myself in order to reproduce the setup.
The Netflix Plugin is hosted on GitHub. Download the plugin and install the zip-file. Best option seems to be to put it on a USB-Stick and install it from there. This plugin needs parted or fdisk, you install them on your kodi and then let the plugin install the widevine library, necessary for the DRM. The DRM is by the way also the thing, that was in the way of getting Netflix work in the first place. And it's still a bit of a mess, since we are using here a extraction of the libwidevine from the chromecast.
Well, as long as it works, but it's not nice and probably creating causing one or two times headache until it finally works.
Also, I might create an ansible-playbook to setup this procedure. This looks like a fun project to do on a rainy Sunday.


Online Geometry Tutoring Problem 108. Angles, Triangle, Median. Math teacher Master Degree. College, SAT Prep. Elearning, Online math tutor, LMS.
In the figure below, given a triangle ABC, BD is the median to AC, angle BCA = a , and angle ABD = 90º - a.
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Series 7 Part 2 DVD
Doctor Who Series 7 Part 2 DVD
Duration 412 minutes
A completely fresh look: bigger, better, more dramatic and shot in HD.
The Doctor returns with a second run of adventures by searching for his companion Clara – an Impossible Girl he's already lost twice. Together they find themselves battling monsters on distant alien planets, trapped in a Russian submarine with a deadly passenger, chasing terrifying ghosts, delving into the heart of the TARDIS, facing the Crimson Horror in Victorian Yorkshire, and coming face to face with an army of upgraded Cybermen. The action grows and the Doctor's oldest secret threatens to be revealed as the world's longest running science fiction series builds toward its explosive 50th anniversary in November 2013. Episodes 6-13 from the seventh series of the relaunched sci-fi adventure show. Accompanied by his latest companion Clara (Jenna-Louise Coleman), the Doctor (Matt Smith) sets out on another rollercoaster round of adventures in time and space, encountering an intergalactic salvage crew; taking on an entity that harvests human minds; and crossing swords with some old 'friends'.
The episodes in this volume are:
'The Bells of Saint John'
'The Rings of Akhaten'
'Cold War'
'Hide'
'Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS'
'The Crimson Horror'
'Nightmare In Silver'
'The Name of the Doctor'
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Aftermath : Throughline In 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history inundated seven states, displaced more than half a million people for months, and caused about $1 billion dollars in property damages. And like many national emergencies it exposed a stark question that the country still struggles to answer - what is the political calculus used to decide who bears the ultimate responsibility in a crisis, especially when it comes to the most vulnerable? This week, the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and what came after.
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JOHN BARRY: It started raining in August 1926. And it didn't really stop. Henry Waring Ball had recorded in his diary, it had rained heavily for months. March 8, quote, "pouring rain almost constantly for 24 hours." March 9, quote, "rain almost all night." March 12, quote, "I don't believe I ever saw so much rain."
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BARRY: March 19, quote, "rain all day." March 20, quote, "still raining hard tonight." March 21, quite cold turn of rain last night. March 26, bad, cold rain. March 27, March 29, still cold and showery. Very dark and rainy. March 30, too dark and rainy to do anything.
(SOUNDBITE OF THUNDER CLAPPING)
BARRY: April 1, violent storm almost all night. April 5, quote, "much rain tonight." April 6, quote, "rained last night, of course."
(SOUNDBITE OF THUNDER CLAPPING, RAIN FALLING)
BARRY: In the first five months of 1927, there were five storms, each one of which was bigger than any single storm in the preceding 10 years. If you lived near the river and you had a brain, you knew perfectly well you were facing a serious threat. It is raining, as usual. On April 21, you have hundreds of men working at a weak spot in the levee, piling sandbags, piling sandbags, piling sandbags. Water started to come over. You cannot hold back the Mississippi River when it's rising with sandbags. All of a sudden, part of the levee sort of pushed forward. People started screaming and running and rolling off the levee. And then, imagine 1,000 fire hydrants bursting forth at the same time.
(SOUNDBITE OF WATER CRASHING)
BARRY: Somebody said that they heard what sounded like dozens of railroad trains coming through the forest at them. And that was the water.
RUND ABDELFATAH, HOST:
You're listening to THROUGHLINE from NPR.
RAMTIN ARABLOUEI, HOST:
And on this episode, The Great Flood of 1927.
BARRY: Well, we're about to start climbing the levee. And once we cross the street, we will be facing the Mississippi River. And it is a big river.
ARABLOUEI: The voice you're hearing belongs to John Barry. He lives in New Orleans.
BARRY: I'm a writer. And we're standing on the levee looking out at the Mississippi River. I became a river rat, you know? T.S. Eliot wrote, the river is within us. And, you know, for some reason, the Mississippi always seemed to be within me.
ARABLOUEI: He looks out on the Mississippi River every day, which explains his obsession with its awesomeness.
BARRY: It drains 31 states and two Canadian provinces. And the drainage basin, actually, stretches almost from Buffalo, N.Y., all the way to the Rockies. So it's a pretty large area. And it carries a tremendous amount of water.
ABDELFATAH: The Mississippi River, this tremendous amount of water, floods. It's flooded hundreds of times. But there's one historic flood that John wrote an entire book about called "Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood Of 1927 And How It Changed America."
ARABLOUEI: The flood inundated seven states from Illinois down to Louisiana, where the river swelled to 80 miles wide. For context, the Grand Canyon, on average, is only 10 miles wide. And more than half a million people were displaced for months.
ABDELFATAH: From a money standpoint, it's estimated that the flood created a billion dollars in property damage, which, in 1927, was a third of the U.S. federal budget.
BARRY: So when you think of it in those terms, it was enough to have some impact on the national economy. It had significantly greater impact on American culture, on demographics and particularly on politics.
ABDELFATAH: This story about the most destructive river flood in our country's history takes us to an inflection point in the ongoing battle between big government and small government approaches to crisis. It's a story about a president who didn't think the disaster was his problem to solve and the inherent shortcomings and prejudice that are often tied to government response.
PAM: Hi, I'm Pam (ph). My team is the winner of THROUGHLINE trivia, and you're listening to THROUGHLINE on NPR.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Part 1 - Search and Rescue.
ABDELFATAH: By the 1920s, folks who lived near the Mississippi River were used to floods.
RICHARD MIZELLE: From the 19th century and into the 20th century, you have a number of manmade levees that were being built to confine the Mississippi River, and that was supposed to protect this region from flooding.
ARABLOUEI: This is Richard Mizelle Jr.
MIZELLE: I am an associate professor of history at the University of Houston, and I am the author of "Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood Of 1927 In The African American Imagination."
ARABLOUEI: So there were all these levees built up at the turn of the 20th century to protect river communities from the near constant flooding they had become used to. But there was so much rain in the first few months of 1927...
MIZELLE: It rained incessantly.
ARABLOUEI: ...That people worried the levees wouldn't hold. The authorities tried to calm the public. They downplayed the storms and doubled down on their confidence in the system.
BARRY: The Corps of Engineers said for the first time, they were in a position to contain the Mississippi River...
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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: All levees are in fine condition, and we expect no trouble.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: The organization is functioning perfectly in all sectors.
BARRY: ...Which is, of course, classic hubris.
ARABLOUEI: Hubris that was quickly and tragically proven wrong.
(SOUNDBITE OF LEVEE BREAKING)
MIZELLE: The first breaks occurred in the upper valley, up by Cairo, Ill. But slowly but surely, these levees began to break throughout the Mississippi Valley and into Louisiana and Mississippi and the cotton-producing regions.
MIZELLE: This was really a domino effect. Once one levee began to break and the flood waters began to sort of continue to push down towards the Gulf of Mexico - when those levees began to fail, you have a cascading effect of breaks throughout the Mississippi Valley.
BARRY: At every point, people were fighting hard to save their homes. And at every point, the river defeated them.
(SOUNDBITE OF STORM)
BARRY: You know, people were killed from Virginia to Oklahoma. But of course, the greatest damage was on the lower Mississippi River in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana.
ABDELFATAH: Perhaps the worst and most dramatic break happened in the Mississippi Delta, causing it to be one of the regions hit hardest by the flood.
PETE DANIEL: Then the water came out at the same rate, they said, as Niagara Falls. And so when the levee broke, it was just - it was over.
ABDELFATAH: This is Pete Daniel, a researcher and the former senior curator of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American history. He's also the author of "Deep'n As It Come," a book on the flood with multiple firsthand accounts from survivors.
DANIEL: I interviewed these people in 1975. And they were old, but their memories were vivid.
ABDELFATAH: Pete traveled down to the Delta with a tape recorder to talk to whoever he could find who was willing to share their experiences.
DANIEL: I asked Mrs. Coralee Campbell (ph) about the flood. And she started by saying, well, I believe it was a Thursday. And then she gave this frantic description of what happened that morning and how she barely escaped and got her son, Roosevelt Campbell Jr. (ph), in her arms and took him up to the levee, the highest ground still.
ARABLOUEI: The Mississippi Delta is flat farmland, so when the water came, it stayed. The only dry ground was up on the levee itself, so Mrs. Campbell (ph) wasn't the only one climbing up that muddy hill in search of safety.
BARRY: Thousands of people took refuge on the tops of levees. And, you know, that's a crown that then was about 8 feet wide and then sloped off to the side. It's not a very comfortable place to be, and you might be there for certainly days, and maybe a good deal longer.
ARABLOUEI: Other people were stranded in trees or their roofs for weeks at a time. They couldn't come down because the waters were still rushing.
MIZELLE: These floodwaters could be deep, and they could be dangerous, and they could be fast-moving. You could easily drown, or the rip currents would take you away if you were not careful.
BARRY: There were splintered houses. There were cows, pigs just rolling over and over in this brown surf.
MIZELLE: You would see alligators and water moccasins in the street, in people's homes. People talked about walking over, you know, thousands upon thousands of crawfish and snakes and other river creatures.
DANIEL: The cows started lowing. The dogs were barking. People were screaming. It was a total chaos.
(SOUNDBITE OF ROOSTER CROWING)
ARABLOUEI: The water covered the entire Delta like an unforgiving blanket until it eventually stifled all that noise into a deafening silence.
BARRY: There was nothing alive. Everything had drowned. There were no sounds. There was nothing.
ABDELFATAH: With all that noise and then all that silence, people couldn't just sit around and wait to be rescued by the federal government. So they took matters into their own hands.
BARRY: The rescuers and most of the Mississippi Delta were mostly bootleggers who came from Arkansas, and they had boats and pretty good boats.
ABDELFATAH: It was Prohibition. And yes, the rogue superheroes were bootleggers.
HERMAN CAILLOUET: They claim some of them - that was moonshiners. Now, whether they were or not I couldn't say, but they were - they played a big part in it, too, because they were used to running at night. And they were here about two, three days.
ABDELFATAH: And the other superheroes? Mailmen.
BARRY: You know, obviously all the roads were underwater, but they would put a mailman in the back of the boat who knew the terrain and could say, well, there - you know, two miles that way there's 50 people who may need rescue. You show up, and there are 50 people in a barn - things like that.
DANIEL: For example, Herman Caillouet had a boat, a powerboat, and he tied a skiff behind it, and he just went out and rescued people with his own boat. Pulled them off of houses, treetops and whatever.
CAILLOUET: And when you stop at the houses to get people, people would get on a boat. And dogs or chickens or anything, they would jump in the boat, too. Oh, the chickens would automatically jump in the boat because...
ABDELFATAH: The rescue went on day and night.
CAILLOUET: So one thing I had to do was keep a gun in the boat so when your boat get lowered - they'd just keep jumping on there if you wouldn't tell them to get off. They wouldn't stand for that. But there was couple of times I had to raise that gun and say, if another one of you all jump in here, I'm going to shoot the rest of you all.
DANIEL: It slowed them down.
CAILLOUET: Yeah, it slowed them down. And then more shipped (ph).
ABDELFATAH: In three days, Herman Caillouet saved 150 people.
BARRY: Individuals taking initiative in a matter of a few days is beyond remarkable.
ABDELFATAH: Remarkable, but not enough to save the hundreds of thousands of people displaced by this crisis.
ABDELFATAH: There needed to be a national response. The problem was, the president of the United States didn't think this was his problem.
BARRY: Well of course, Coolidge is president. Coolidge was a strange guy.
ABDELFATAH: Calvin Coolidge, whose nickname was Silent Cal.
DANIEL: Because he didn't talk much (laughter).
BARRY: His son had developed a blister after playing tennis on the White House tennis courts. It got infected, and he died. And after that, he said the power and the glory of the presidency went with it. He almost seemed to lose all interest in his office. Republican governors, Republican senators begged him to go south to show his support for people who were suffering.
ARABLOUEI: But the pleading fell on deaf ears. For instance, when a Philadelphia Republican told Coolidge that if he visited the flood district, the thrill would go through the country...
BARRY: Coolidge declined.
ABDELFATAH: When the president of the Mississippi State Board of Development pleaded, Mississippi Valley needs your help now...
ARABLOUEI: When the governor of Mississippi begged for the third time, telling the president, your coming would result in securing millions of dollars of additional aid...
ABDELFATAH: When NBC asked him to broadcast a nationwide appeal, and when the famous musician Will Rogers asked for a telegram to read at a benefit concert...
BARRY: All these requests, Coolidge declined.
ABDELFATAH: Coolidge wanted nothing to do with this mess. He saw it as something states had to clean up with the help of charitable donations and the Red Cross. But the one thing he did do was appoint a man to orchestrate that aid and relief effort, to serve as a sort of flood czar. And that man was Herbert Hoover.
(SOUNDITE OF MUSIC)
BARRY: He was often referred to as the great humanitarian. He had quite a track record. During World War I, he organized a relief effort to feed occupied Belgium. Right after the war, he fed much of Europe. The continent was prostrate.
DANIEL: And so he organized that relief and made a name for himself, and then he got into politics. And so by 1927...
BARRY: Herbert Hoover is Secretary of Commerce. There weren't a lot of people he actually got along with very well because he was actually very shy. At one point, he said he couldn't stand the pneumatic drill of constant human contact, which is an odd thing for a politician to say. But if you give them a problem to solve, then he was in his element.
ABDELFATAH: Hoover hopped on a train from D.C. and headed straight to Memphis, where he set up his relief headquarters. From there, he addressed the nation in one of the first-ever national radio broadcasts.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: (As Herbert Hoover) I am speaking to you from the temporary headquarters which we have established for the national fight against the most dangerous flood our country has ever known. It is difficult to picture in words the might of the Mississippi in flood.
ABDELFATAH: He described the situation to American citizens all across the country to solicit sympathy and donations.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: (As Herbert Hoover) But thousands more have need to be removed in boats. Other thousands are camped upon broken levees. This is a pitiable plight of a lost battle.
MIZELLE: There were many people who were - who were moved by this. And so you had kids setting up lemonade stands. You had theater companies who would pass a donation can up and down the aisles. Churches would have two donations, one for tithes and offerings and the other for the Mississippi flood. You had Guam and Haiti sending cables of $500 or $200. So the fact that there were so many people who were willing to give money and put forward charitable operations really shows how prevalent this disaster was in the imaginations of most people in this country.
ARABLOUEI: With millions of dollars pouring in, the Red Cross teamed up with the Army to set out on perhaps the largest rescue mission the country had ever seen.
MIZELLE: The Army, Navy, Coast Guard - together they sent roughly 830, -40 vessels to the Mississippi Delta in the form of hydroplanes, boats, cutters, but also planes.
DANIEL: The planes were used to spot refugees. And any number of people I talked to said a seaplane would fly over and they would wave their white handkerchief at it. They would be on a roof or something. And an hour or so later, a boat would come. So it was very effective.
MIZELLE: The United States Army sent cots. They sent blankets. They sent cooks. And so it really did resemble, for quite a bit of time, a war zone.
BARRY: You know, the whole operation thrown together from scratch, from essentially zero, in a matter of a few days is beyond remarkable.
ARABLOUEI: The rescue missions were just the beginning. There was nowhere for these people to go. Their homes were either still completely flooded or destroyed altogether. They were refugees.
DANIEL: And they hated that name. Mrs. Campbell said, they called us refugees, and I guess that's what we were. But she said it with total distaste.
ARABLOUEI: So the Red Cross set up refugee camps, more than 150 of them.
BARRY: They were mostly tent cities, and they were scattered all the way from the state of Missouri down through Mississippi and Louisiana, almost to the Gulf.
ARABLOUEI: Around 600,000 people were being housed, clothed or fed by the Red Cross across the country, and Herbert Hoover was looking like a hero.
MIZELLE: There was a very triumphalist narrative that you would see in most newspapers.
DANIEL: That's very much American. That's what America wants to hear. They want to hear, oh, it was good. Everything worked out. They were heroes.
BARRY: And if there was the slightest criticism of anything, Hoover would always respond. He let nothing slip, even from the tiniest weekly paper in America. And of course, an editor of such a paper would be astonished and, you know, flattered to receive a response, and it would be printed.
MIZELLE: He definitely used this flood as a springboard into the 1928 presidency.
BARRY: He knew how to use the press. And in the middle of the flood, with editorials hailing him as a great humanitarian, begging him to run for president - and this is in Democratic papers, not just Republican papers...
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #5: (Reading) He is the ablest and most efficient American in public life. In personal fitness for the presidency, there is no other American even remotely in Mr. Hoover's class - The Oakland Tribune.
BARRY: But the press then was no different than it is today. It loves to hype someone, and it's just as happy to tear that person down if it has any good reason.
MIZELLE: The problem with that was that there were rumors and reports and confirmations that African Americans were being mistreated in these American Red Cross relief camps.
BARRY: These camps were mostly in the South, and not surprisingly, abuses began to surface. And this began to leak into what was then referred to as the Negro Press. And Hoover recognized that a scandal that developed in those papers might easily spread to The New York Times and the generally read press. So he moved pretty rapidly to try to prevent that from happening.
ABDELFATAH: When we come back, dueling narratives over what's really happening in the relief camps, while Hoover does whatever it takes to preserve his path to the presidency.
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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Part II - the promise.
ARABLOUEI: When the levee system along the river collapsed, the result was more than 23,000 square miles of land submerged completely under water. Some parts of the country, including residential neighborhoods, were 30 feet under water. The water just sat there, while people left behind sat in camps.
DANIEL: And that's where they stayed until the water went down, sometimes weeks, sometimes months. And of course, during that time, they didn't know what happened to their belongings. They didn't know if their house was still there, if what was in the house was still salvageable, whether or not they'd be able to plant a crop that year - all those questions of a person who's in a camp and doesn't know what happened back home.
ARABLOUEI: The flood dominated the national conversation, and the press kept it going with daily front-page news stories that painted Hoover as a national treasure - a narrative that helped catapult him into the mix of the 1928 presidential candidates.
ABDELFATAH: But there were two narratives forming about what life was like for flood refugees living in these camps under his watch - specifically, for black refugees in the Mississippi Delta.
MIZELLE: Well, many of them were saying that they were being forced into labor. Where white individuals in these relief camps were receiving supplies, food, tents free of charge, many African Americans had to work for this charity that was being given by citizens across the country.
DANIEL: The headline was, like, Peonage in Red Cross Camps.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #9: (Reading) "Refugees Herded Like Cattle To Stop Escape From Peonage" - the Chicago Defender.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #10: (Reading) "Conscript Labor Gangs Keep Flood Refugees In Legal Bondage" - the Pittsburgh Courier.
DANIEL: Well, at that moment, I didn't know what peonage was, but it's debt servitude. It was so sensational that there was still slavery in Mississippi.
ABDELFATAH: Sensational since slavery had officially ended almost 65 years before the flood. But now many descendants of former slaves were finding themselves under similar circumstances to those before emancipation, and word was travelling to black newspapers up north about what was going on down south.
MIZELLE: If you were African American and you arrived at one of these Red Cross relief camps, then you would have to give the name of a white person that you worked for. And if you did not work for a white person as a sharecropper or as a domestic or in any other capacity, then you had to have some white person to vouch for you before you were given food or a tent.
MIZELLE: They were given a tag, which they had to have at all times, and they were prevented from leaving and entering the Red Cross relief camps freely. To not be able to move in and out of the relief camps was an affront to many African Americans across the country, resembling a form of 20th century slavery in many ways.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #11: They wasn't given too good of food from that Red Cross up there. Some of the people got beat bad up there.
MIZELLE: Many found themselves being held at gunpoint in these Red Cross relief camps, sometimes guarded by National Guardsmen, sometimes guarded by sort of small boys who were given guns by their fathers to guard these individuals. At any given time, if laborers were needed to load sandbags, to lift sandbags, to carry sandbags, these men could be conscripted for labor. And if they refused to do so, then they were subject to violence.
ABDELFATAH: It was the Jim Crow South. The Ku Klux Klan was at its height, and many black people in the delta worked as sharecroppers. They lived and worked on white-owned plantations and paid rent by coughing up a portion of their crop. This created a cycle of seasonal, never-ending debt that the black farmers owed to the plantation owners.
MIZELLE: Because not only would they have to make a profit with the sharecropping system itself, but they would have to pay back the debt on the loans that were provided to them by the landowners. And so this system was inherently flawed. It was unscrupulous, and it was really designed to keep sharecroppers in debt every year.
ABDELFATAH: And white planters had every reason to want to keep the black planters in debt. That debt kept them tied to working their plantations, which was hugely important in 1927 because...
MIZELLE: This was also the moment of the Great Migration, in which African Americans, roughly 3.5 million African Americans, between 1915 and 1970, migrated out of Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, other parts of the South to the North - Chicago, Detroit, New York City, Philadelphia. There was a huge fear on behalf of white planters that many of these sharecroppers and other workers would use this as an opportunity to migrate north, that this was the last straw. This was an opportunity to leave this country for good.
BARRY: There were people in the camps who made efforts to leave the camps and head to Chicago or Detroit or Los Angeles. They had lost everything. Why should they stay?
ARABLOUEI: And yet leaving was almost impossible with soldiers guarding the gates. While some black and white refugees were evacuated north, many people were left behind. Some say that black farmers were left behind intentionally so that they couldn't get out of their sharecropping debts. John Barry says that happened in Greenville, Miss.
BARRY: The fact is that there were several dozen steamboats pulling barges who had gathered in Greenville. They could have evacuated the 10 to 15,000 people in a day and taken them to safety.
ARABLOUEI: But that's not what happened.
BARRY: A group of planters pointed out that if that happened, the labor force would go away, and when the water went down, there'd be nobody to work on the plantations. And instead, the steamboats left Greenville empty. That's what happened.
BARRY: You know, there were roughly 150 refugee camps. And this one single camp in Greenville, Miss., developed a reputation as the single worst camp to be an African American.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #12: (As character) Whites were kicking coloreds and beating them and knocking them around like dogs. Hungry people - they wouldn't feed them sometimes.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #13: (As character) Just like dogs, I'll tell you. They were treated like dogs.
ABDELFATAH: African American newspapers in the North and Midwest got tipped off about these realities, and journalists like Ida B. Wells started publishing stories about what was going on.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #14: (As Ida B. Wells) These people of our race are giving Mr. Hoover a loving cup in appreciation of his good work for them, while their own people are being treated like slaves.
MIZELLE: Herbert Hoover's position was that they were not in a position to go against the local norms and the local customs, that they were just channeling this money into the hands of people who were in need. In the Mississippi Delta, of course, they channeled much of that money through politicians and businesses who were sort of no friends, to put it lightly, to African Americans. And so by remaining neutral, the criticism was that they were essentially allowing this discrimination to occur by their silence.
ABDELFATAH: Hoover was basically saying, look; all we can do is funnel money to local institutions and have them run things on the ground. Problem was, those local institutions were run by people with racist agendas. And instead of pushing back against the local powers, he decided to run some serious damage control.
BARRY: What Hoover did then was contact a man named Robert Moton.
ABDELFATAH: Robert Moton, he was the head of the Tuskegee Institute, which is now Tuskegee University, made famous by Booker T. Washington.
BARRY: And Washington had created what was referred to as the Tuskegee machine, a political machine of African Americans that was important to the Republican Party. At the time, of course, every African American who voted anywhere in America voted Republican. Lincoln, of course, had freed the slaves.
ABDELFATAH: Hoover was a Republican and needed to stay in good graces with the African American base that supported his party, which was more important than ever with his eyes on the presidency. So he got in touch with the most powerful black political leader, Robert Moton, and offered him a newly created position.
BARRY: Hoover decided that he would create, quote, "a colored advisory commission," unquote. And Moton was going to be its head. And he wired Moton to invite him to come to Memphis and, in fact, spelled his name wrong in the wire. But for the opportunity to meet Hoover and be a player, Moton got over the offense.
ARABLOUEI: This Colored Advisory Commission was tasked with investigating the abuses of the refugee camps and compiling a report of the findings. Moton accepted the position and got to work. He formed a group of the nation's top black leaders who set out to visit the camps and document the conditions.
DANIEL: So you have this commission that contains a lot of important African Americans. And, you know, they go to the camps. They do an investigation, and they put it all down in writing. And, well, that's when the s*** hit the fan.
ARABLOUEI: The Colored Advisory Commission delivered its report to Hoover, detailing the discrimination and abuse that was taking place in the camps, particularly in the Mississippi Delta. Hoover was not pleased.
DANIEL: Because Moton's report told exactly what was going on in the camps, and Hoover didn't want that. He wanted praise. And he browbeat Moton. I mean, he really browbeat him to take all that out.
ARABLOUEI: Hoover intimated that he wanted the report to be revised, with all the incriminating findings removed. But such a bold request came with an equally bold offer.
BARRY: He made an extraordinary suggestion to Robert Moton. And that suggestion was since the Delta was underwater, Louisiana was underwater, Arkansas was underwater, all those - most of those plantations had no financial resources and could not recover. And Hoover proposed creating an entity that would allow the transition from sharecropping to ownership so that eventually, tens of thousands of people who were sharecroppers would soon own that land - that Hoover would plan to raise money through the flood effort and use that financial resource to bankroll the beginning of that.
ARABLOUEI: Hoover was insinuating putting an end, in effect, to the sharecropping system in the U.S., and that with his help, the flood could actually turn these black farmers into first-time landowners.
MIZELLE: And he made this case of providing 20 acres to select African Americans to farm in the aftermath of the flood to rehabilitate both laborers and the environmental landscape.
ABDELFATAH: He called it a land resettlement plan. And for the time, it was revolutionary.
DANIEL: This was 1927, so the planters needed this labor, and they didn't want anybody to interfere with their labor. And if you've tried to revise the sharecropping system, you were messing with their labor.
MIZELLE: Politics of the era made it such that most people would not agree to that. Most people sort of did not believe that this was a reality. But nonetheless, Hoover floated that idea past Moton.
BARRY: And Moton told the national black political leadership that this was the most important thing to happen to the race since the slaves were freed, and he believed it.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #15: (As Robert Moton) I am not at liberty to give you details, but you will hear about it soon. But the Red Cross fund will doubtless be the instrument for doing something in behalf of the Negro more significant than anything which has happened since emancipation.
ABDELFATAH: Hoover was dangling a carrot, and if Moton played along by revising the report, he would be granted a reward beyond his wildest dreams. So Moton played along and watered down the report.
DANIEL: And so the final report is Pablum. Everything's fine.
ABDELFATAH: Some of Moton's most respected colleagues were skeptical of this offer and skeptical of Moton himself.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #16: (As W. E. B. Du Bois) We have grave suspicions that the Moton committee will be sorely tempted to whitewash the whole situation, to pat Mr. Hoover loudly on the back, and to make no real effort to investigate the desperate and evil conditions of that section of our country. The one fatal thing for them to do and the thing for which the American Negro will never forgive them is spineless surrender to the administration and flattery for the guilty Red Cross - W. E. B. Du Bois.
ARABLOUEI: Despite such strong disapproval, Moton felt there was no way he could pass something up that could be so groundbreaking for his fellow black Americans.
BARRY: You know, this was an implicit quid pro quo, as most of them are. But clearly, Moton had every reason to do anything he could possibly do to see to it that Hoover was nominated and elected. So he made a point not only of whitewashing the report but working as hard as he possibly could to ensure Hoover's nomination.
ARABLOUEI: When we come back, Hoover continues to rise as the waters recede, and his promise is put to the test.
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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Part 3 - The Betrayal.
ARABLOUEI: Now, to understand what's going to happen next, we have to talk about the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln. By the time of the Mississippi flood, the party had presided over unprecedented economic growth, and their rhetoric emphasized personal responsibility and the power of individualistic American capitalism and, most importantly, small government.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: (As Herbert Hoover) By adherence to the principles of decentralized self-government, ordered liberty, equal opportunity, and freedom to the individual, our American experiment in human welfare has yielded a degree of well-being unparalleled in the world.
ABDELFATAH: Calvin Coolidge decided not to run again in 1928. And in his stead was Herbert Hoover, and he really wanted to be president.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: (As Herbert Hoover) It is the American system. It is founded upon the conception that only through ordered liberty, freedom and equal opportunity to the individual will his initiative and enterprise spur on the march of progress.
ABDELFATAH: The Hoover campaign pointed to his self-made success, his sense of rugged individualism, and the swift action he took in response to the Mississippi flood. The campaign even produced a film about Hoover called "Master Of Emergencies." The Republicans were now the party of decentralization, of the free market, and Hoover was the consummate symbol for this corporate future. Calvin Coolidge summed up this philosophy in the simplest way possible when he said, the chief business of the American people is business.
ARABLOUEI: And with a powerful candidate like Hoover, the Republicans saw an opening to steal some Democratic voters in the South, which was a big deal because, back then, Democrats were the party behind many racist Jim Crow policies.
ABDELFATAH: And in the lead up to Election Day, right there in the mix supporting Hoover, was Robert Moton.
BARRY: And he did everything he possibly could do to see that Hoover was nominated and elected.
ABDELFATAH: Moton went to black leaders urging them to publicly back Hoover despite their reservations. After all, Moton believed that he'd potentially secured a game-changing promise from Hoover because remember - the whole ending black sharecropping thing...
BARRY: Was not Moton's idea; it was Hoover's idea. Whether it was a, quote, "quid pro quo" or not, Moton very much expected Hoover as president to move forward on that.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #17: (Reading) Herbert Clark Hoover has been elected president of the United States. His electoral vote now stands at 418 and may reach the unprecedented total of 467.
ARABLOUEI: Herbert Hoover won the 1928 election in a landslide.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #17: (Reading) He has cut into the Solid South for the first time in 50 years, and latest returns indicate he has carried Virginia and North Carolina and probably Florida. Texas is in the balance. These four states have voted Democratic for 50 years. The Republican has swept the Corn Belt as well as every other Midwest state.
ARABLOUEI: But this was not the way Moton viewed Hoover's election. He saw it as a huge opportunity to end sharecropping in the South through Hoover's land resettlement scheme. And what did Hoover do once he got into office?
BARRY: Nothing.
BARRY: It was as if Hoover had never heard of it, even though it was his own idea.
ARABLOUEI: Hoover delayed meeting with Moton over and over, but Moton didn't stop. He continued to try to push Hoover to act. And even though it was clear Hoover wasn't going to do anything...
ABDELFATAH: Moton didn't give up. He came up with another plan. He tried to raise money to enact the policy privately.
BARRY: Moton began making arrangements with major private donors, like the Rockefellers but not exclusively John D. Rockefeller. There were others as well who were very supportive of Tuskegee and African Americans in the South in general.
ABDELFATAH: He even got an agreement from Hoover to show up and speak to the donors privately.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #15: (As Robert Moton) A word from you, with half a dozen gentlemen, in my opinion, would settle the matter in an hour so far as the financial end of it is concerned.
BARRY: He tried to arrange meetings and had them all set up, and all he was hoping for was for Hoover to show up at the meeting and give the most bland endorsement.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #15: (As Robert Moton) You will, I know, forgive me for this seeming persistence in the matter, but if you could make the trip to New York, as you had one time suggested, it would assure success at the start.
BARRY: And Hoover did nothing, kind of reminiscent of Coolidge's refusal to do anything during the flood.
MIZELLE: Moton, as you can imagine, was disappointed, understanding that this was probably not likely in an oppressive era of the Jim Crow South.
ARABLOUEI: The deal Moton thought he had was an illusion, and that leaves us with the obvious question. Why? Why would Hoover so easily turn his back on his own idea?
BARRY: Well, we don't know why he dropped it, you know. There's no smoking gun. There's no written record. It could be that he just was using Moton. It could be that Hoover's landslide election opened up other possibilities, and that was a white Republican Party in the South that might begin to rival the Democrats, and doing something for the African American community would have killed those efforts. Could be that Hoover, after all, just decided it was a bad idea and wouldn't work. We don't really know why. We can only speculate.
ARABLOUEI: Regardless of his motivations, one thing is clear - Hoover's broken promise and inaction as president cooled his relationship with Moton and many in the black political elite.
BARRY: This betrayal, it really snapped the emotional connection between the national African American political leadership and the Republican Party, certainly between them and Hoover.
ARABLOUEI: The Chicago Defender, a major black newspaper, wrote this in 1928.
(Reading) Strange as it may seem, the Democrats are more favorable to the political and social aspirations of the black man than other Republicans.
ABDELFATAH: And by 1932, when Hoover ran against the Democratic candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt, Moton and many other black leaders didn't come out and publicly endorse Hoover.
BARRY: Which was almost inconceivable given the connections between African Americans and the Republican Party ever since Lincoln. You know, I'm not saying that Hoover's betrayal shifted black voters to the Democratic Party because the average African American voter was unaware of the deal, but it did create certain openings.
ABDELFATAH: Openings that the Democratic Party stepped into. But we don't want to oversimplify too much here. African Americans shifting to the Democratic Party was a long and complicated process that deserves its own episode of the show. But according to John Barry, Hoover's broken promise...
BARRY: It was certainly a starting point.
ARABLOUEI: While all of the politics were playing out at the national level, back along the Mississippi, some people were going back home - or what remained of their homes.
DANIEL: The camps operated till the people could go back home. In some cases, it was weeks; in some cases, months. And what they went back to was, usually, if the house was intact, it stunk. All the river things had passed through it - snakes. Sometimes people found snakes, frogs, whatever, still in the houses. The walls were pretty much destroyed. And it was almost impossible to get the smell out. And then people would go back and their house wouldn't be there anymore.
MIZELLE: Many people described an eeriness to the Mississippi Delta, you know. And so places like Greenville and Cleveland sort of took on this aura of death that lasted for quite a while.
ABDELFATAH: And you can see it in the photos. They're like scenes from war - streets filled with debris, buildings empty, families picking up the pieces of the places they once called home. But as much as things had changed, in a way everything was the same.
MIZELLE: Much of the landscape would come to resemble, you know, pre-1927, in the sense of, you know, sharecroppers were reinscribed to their debt. The racial system was not washed away in the flood, as some people argued and hoped for. It was, in many ways, a status quo in terms of, you know, how African Americans were treated.
ABDELFATAH: Sharecropping continued in the South for decades. The flood had dislodged thousands of people but left the racist system that ruled over them in place.
ARABLOUEI: One witness to the flood named Lucy Summerville called it a great mountain of water that brought death and destruction. Those words, that description is as old as humanity itself. Over and over, throughout our history, our lives have been upended and uprooted by the indifference of nature. This is why the flood myth plays an integral role in our ancient and holy stories. It is a fear that we constantly live with.
MIZELLE: The '27 flood was really the first time we began to really think about, what does it mean to be in this particular space that's vulnerable? What does it mean to be in this particular space where you are vulnerable as a citizen? And what do people try to do after a disaster to better their situation? And I think that's one of the lasting legacies of the 1927 flood.
ABDELFATAH: But what happened in 1927 isn't just an inevitable stop along the path of natural destruction; it's what happened after the levees broke that reminds us how much our response to crises, as individuals and as a society flawed with prejudice and injustice, exacerbates their already tragic impacts.
ARABLOUEI: Today, our country is still shaped in sometimes imperceptible ways by the suffering and broken promises of that terrible year. If we are to draw any lessons from the enormous tragedy, it's that doing nothing will never be enough.
ARABLOUEI: That's it for this week's show. I'm Ramtin Arablouei.
ABDELFATAH: I'm Rund Abdelfatah. And you've been listening to THROUGHLINE from NPR.
ARABLOUEI: The episode was produced by me.
ABDELFATAH: And me and...
JAMIE YORK, BYLINE: Jamie York.
LAWRENCE WU, BYLINE: Lawrence Wu.
LAINE KAPLAN-LEVENSON, BYLINE: Laine Kaplan-Levenson.
JULIE CAINE, BYLINE: Julie Caine.
N'JERI EATON, BYLINE: N'Jeri Eaton.
ARABLOUEI: Fact-checking for this episode was done by Kevin Volkl.
ABDELFATAH: Special thanks to Diane Mack.
ARABLOUEI: Alon Shapiro.
ABDELFATAH: Jason Fuller.
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ABDELFATAH: Our music was composed by Ramtin and his band, which includes...
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Melody Gardot pays homage to Yves Piaget with song
Singer records new version of La Vie en Rose and models jewels.
American singer Melody Gardot has teamed up with Piaget to showcase its new jewellery collection, and has recorded a new rendition of La Vie en Rose in celebration of the jewellery brand's iconic Rose collection.
Piaget created its original Yves Piaget Rose collection in 1982 in tribute to the brand's founder Yves Piaget. The collection has been re-launched 30 years on with "delicate but affordable open wire pieces [and] sumptuous, extravagant jewels".
Gardot said she has been inspired by the Yves Piaget Rose and has recorded her own version of La Vie en Rose.
She said: "La Vie en Rose represents a lot of things for me, but mostly it represents my feelings towards my guitar. What it has brought into my life and how things have changed. La Vie en Rose is like food for my musical garden."
The video created for the song features Piaget jewellery.
The singer has modelled several of the designs in the new 2012 collections, and her version of the song has been added as a bonus track to Gadot's latest album, The Absence. The song was made famous by French singer Edith Piaf.
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Island Resort and Casino — An 'Island' of Gaming Amid Michigan Wilderness
Island Resort and Casino
Once upon a time people in and around Harris, Michigan, would get into their cars and drive to Harris to play bingo…in their cars…without leaving their cars.
It may sound like a 'Yooper' fairy tale, but drive-in bingo was the genesis of what is today Island Resort and Casino in Harris, Michigan, 13 miles west of Escanaba in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Island Resort and Casino is just what its name implies, an island of big city gaming, entertainment and fun, surrounded by Michigan's U.P. wilderness. Think mid-winter and not inches, but feet, of snow in this northern climate, and the casino's palm tree paradise décor is all the more a tropical island getaway.
Island Resort and Casino has 140 slots, plus table games that include poker, blackjack, roulette, craps and a bingo hall. There is a poker room, near the bingo hall, both of which are very basic, but the rest of the casino has a nice, leisurely feel about it.
There are 274 guest rooms; 112 in the original hotel, built in 1998, and recently renovated; and 162 in the new Palm Tower, completed in 2007, which also boasts a handsome Presidential Suite. The 11th floor Palm Tower guest rooms have a chic style décor, while others, like those on the floor I was on (7th) are spacious and clean, but a bit more low-brow with nylon/cotton quilted bedspreads, two pillows per bed, no closet door and no iron/ironing board. All rooms have a WIFI. An average size indoor pool is on the first floor and there is a small fitness room.
Each hotel guest 18 and older, receives one $5 dinner coupon; $5 Promo coupon; $5 bingo coupon and a drink coupon at check-in. There's also free valet parking; 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. room service; bell services and in-room hair dryers and coffeemakers, with ceramic Island Casino branded coffee cups. An on-property RV park has 53 sites, with electricity, water, laundry and shower facilities.
While family friendly, there isn't too much there for kids, and in the Palm Tower, there is no division between the check-in desk and casino floor, so families will likely feel like there's not much space to be a family, with gambling right at the front door of the hotel.
Other than a delightful and delicious catered dinner, my only meals at the hotel were breakfasts, which were average – and one day with overcrisped hasbrowns, a bit below average, but waitstaff were attentive and friendly. An Irish coffee at the sports bar was coffee and Bailey's, not quite what I expected, but a Blue Moon draft was a healthy pint and quite refreshing.
Most evenings there is live entertainment in the Club Four One lounge that opens to the casino floor, so if you're at the nearby slots, you can enjoy some excellent music while you play, or of course, you can take a break to enjoy the band in the loung.
The Island Lake Showroom is spectacular. It seats only 1,700, so it feels cozy, like a private theater, and has a stylish, modern décor that says 'quality venue' all the way. The casino/resort is not shy about booking big names either, so you never know who you might have the chance to get up close and personal with in this delightful theater.
In addition, the Island Resort and Casino completed a $2 million expansion of its conference center – no doubt to better accommodate its Futures Tour event, as well as community and professional events. It includes a new private dining and club room that will make a group of about 20 or less feel like they've checked into their own clubhouse.
The casino slots offer a nice variety of traditional and electronic games. I enjoyed its Flashdance game, although I typically don't enjoy a 40-cent minimum on a penny slot, because the payoff is always a disproportional number of pennies for the bet at stake with each spin. And while I liked the two versions of Wizard of Oz, tucked into the corner, I didn't like watching them suck up my bets with fairly little fanfare. The John Wayne two-cent machines were pretty fun, and the blasting Monkees were downright annoying.
The machines directly outside the lounge were a fun play, paying off enough to keep me even. But after awhile, even can be a bit boring. The great music, however, kept me playing long after the machines lost their thrill.
Each night, I started the evening with $30 to $50 in slots and each night I lost, which in my book, makes the 'win' factor below average for me. However, one of my media colleagues picked up a quick $150 max betting his comp dollars and another said she was up $100 on max bets on Wheel of Fortune. I did see one patron raking it in on the video poker as well.
The casino seemed pretty well ventilated, so not overly smoky. Drink staff were scarce for the most part, which was an inconvenience. I also heard some comments about non-casino-labeled water bottles getting the boot, which was hard to believe, but in general, the floor staff seemed very friendly and efficient.
Although it might seem a bit hokey to some, I liked the island theme, which the casino seems to carry off well.
One of Island Resort and Casino's best features may be its Stay n' Play golf packages, which tee you up at some of the areas best golf courses, and then provide a fun and restful evening retreat at night.
For more information or reservations, visit www.islandresortandcasino.com or call 1-800-682-6040.
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Variety of Slots B+
Smoke Ventilation B
Décor & Comfort A-
'Win' Factor C
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Entertainment A
Food B
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It was mostly out with the old, in with the new Tuesday, as voters elected three new City Council members.
CRESTVIEW � It was mostly out with the old, in with the new Tuesday, as voters elected three new City Council members.
Council President Benjamin Iannucci III and Charles Baugh Jr. were defeated by Joe Blocker and Mickey Rytman, respectively.
Baugh and Iannucci are relatively new to Crestview, while Blocker and Rytman are lifelong residents. That issue was raised during a recent candidates forum hosted by the Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce.
In the Precinct 1 race, Blocker collected 494 votes to Iannucci�s 424, according to unofficial results from the Okaloosa County Supervisor of Elections office. Landrum Edwards finished third with 353 votes.
In the Precinct 3 race, Rytman got 762 votes to Baugh�s 536.
In the race for the Precinct 2 seat being vacated by Tim Grandberry, Shannon Hayes, son of the late Councilman Sam Hayes, defeated Bill Cox by 742 votes to 540.
�I know Dad is smiling up there,� Hayes said after the results were announced.
Betsy Roy managed to hold on to her city clerk post following stiff competition by Wanda Davis. Roy collected 581 votes to Davis� 557. J.T. Kinsey finished third with 163 votes.
The voter turnout was 10.5 percent, according to the elections office.
Thanking the voters for their support, Rytman said he didn�t expect to defeat Baugh.
Hayes said he wants to get out and talk to the residents �and see what the issues are.� He said one of his first goals is to resolve the ownership issue of the alleyway behind the Alatex building.
In Laurel Hill, Councilman Robby Adams defeated challenger Mike Blizzard to take the mayor�s seat by a vote of 69-46.
Joan Smith, who stepped down from the mayor�s post to run for City Council, was defeated by Council Chairman Larry Hendren and former Councilman Johnny James.
Hendren received 91 votes, James collected 83 and Smith ended up with 33.
The top two finishers claimed the seats.


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The Himalayan Times reported that fire broke out at Simara-based Hulas Steel Industries in Jitpur-Simara Sub Metropolitan City-1 of Bara district in Nepal on Saturday afternoon. The fire started at 12:15 PM at the area where scraps of the factory are stored. Police said, the fire began from a spark that was generated while breaking down iron with the use of gas. It was brought under control after around 45 minutes with the help of personnel from Nepal Police, Armed Police Force, workers at the industry, and fire-brigades of Jitpur-Simara Submetropolis and Nepal Oil Corporation.
Details of the damage are in the process of being determined, said Police Inspector at the Area Police Office, Simara, Subas Hamal.


The Duchess of Cambridge has revealed the simple game her kids love playing at home ... but it's not one we would encourage for Aussie kids.
It's safe to say that a lot of people presume Prince George and Princess Charlotte are two of the most spoilt kids in the world.
As royals we're sure the pair, along with their baby brother Prince Louis, have plenty of toys and games at their disposal. But what they actually enjoy doing the most is rather surprising.
The Duchess of Cambridge revealed what keeps her kids occupied for hours in the garden, during her first royal duty after maternity leave.
Kate spent the day at the Sayers Croft Forest School and Wildlife Garden at Paddington Recreation Ground in London with a group of children and learned about engaging with nature.
Zoe Stroud, interim Head of Sayers Croft Forest School, revealed that Kate often takes George and Charlotte hunting for 'mini beasts' in their garden during the outing.
"She really gets what we are doing here and said she often takes her children on spider hunts in their garden, which they love," Zoe explained according to PEOPLE.
"They can spend hours out there," she added.
Sadly the mum-of-three's adventure with the children wasn't as successful as she would have hoped.
Spider hunting is definitely not something we expected royal kids to enjoy doing but it's nice to know one of their favourite activities involves plenty of time outdoors.


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Flint water crisis whistleblower to speak
Will discuss her book, 'What the Eyes Don't See'
Mary Drier,
Published 6:00 am EDT, Tuesday, October 15, 2019
UPPER THUMB — The whistleblower who exposed the dangerous levels of lead in Flint's drinking water after testing blood lead levels in its children is set to speak in Caro this week.
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha will speak at 3 p.m., Oct. 17, at the Caro High School Auditorium, 301 N. Hooper St.
She will be speaking about her book, "What the Eyes Don't See," which tells the story of how she discovered the Flint water crisis and led the outcry for it to be publicized and fixed.
The event is part of the Michigan Humanities' 2019-20 Great Michigan Read — a statewide reading and discussion program that is featuring Hanna-Attisha's book.
The book recounts her discovery that Flint's children were being poisoned by lead in the city's drinking water.
She announced her research findings to the national press and then took further action, including founding the Flint Child Health and Development Fund, which has raised millions of dollars to date.
The event does not require registration, is open to the public, and is hosted by the Caro Area District Library and Michigan Humanities.
The Great Michigan Read program started in 2007. Its focus is to start a dialogue among diverse perspectives, encourage a deeper understanding of the humanities, and connect thousands of readers with authors and engaging educational programming using Michigan-based non-fiction and fiction books.
A book is selected every two years to be the Great Michigan Read book by a committee of librarians, teachers, students and community members.
Hanna-Attisha's Caro presentation is one of about two dozen she will be doing across the state.
She is director of the pediatrics residency at Hurley Medical Center and an assistant professor at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, where she leads the Hurley Children's Hospital Public Health Initiative, an innovative program that provides the public health tools to advocate for Flint's children's healthy development.
In 2016, she was recognized as Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World.
For more information about Hanna-Attisha's speaking engagement, call Caro Area District Library Director Erin Schmandt at 989-673-4329, or email her at erin@carolibrary.org.


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Legislation #: 970139 Introduction Date: 2/6/1997
Title: Amending Chapter 80, Code of Ordinances of the City of Kansas City, Missouri, 1996, commonly known as the Zoning Ordinance, by adding a new section to be known as Section 80-11A0028, rezoning an area of approximately 0.44 acres generally located at the northeast corner of 5th Street and Washington Street from District M-1 (Light Industry) to District PD/M-1 (Planned District/Light Industry), and approving a development plan for the same. (11925-PD-1))
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Amending Chapter 80, Code of Ordinances of the City of Kansas City, Missouri, 1996, commonly known as the Zoning Ordinance, by adding a new section to be known as Section 80-11A0028, rezoning an area of approximately 0.44 acres generally located at the northeast corner of 5th Street and Washington Street from District M-1 (Light Industry) to District PD/M-1 (Planned District/Light Industry), and approving a development plan for the same. (11925-PD-1))
Section A. That Chapter 80, Code of Ordinances of the City of Kansas City, Missouri, 1996, commonly known as the Zoning Ordinance, is hereby amended by enacting a new section to be known as Section 80-11A0028, rezoning an area of approximately 0.44 acres generally located at the northeast corner of 5th Street and Washington Street from District M-1 (Light Industry) to District PD/M-1 (Planned District/Light Industry), said section to read as follows:
Section 80-11A0028. That an area legally described as:
All of the west ninety-five feet of Lots 6 through 9, inclusive, and the north eight feet of the west ninety-five feet of Lot 10, Block 1, Lykins Addition, a subdivision in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri.
is hereby rezoned from District M-1 (Light Industry) to District PD/M-1 (Planned District/Light Industry), all as shown outlined on a map marked Section 80-11A0028, which is attached hereto and made a part hereof, and which is hereby adopted as a part of an amendment to the zoning maps constituting a part of said chapter and as an amendment to Section 80-11 thereof.
Section B. That a development plan for the area legally described above is hereby approved. A copy of said development plan is on file in the office of the City Clerk under Document No. 970139, which is attached hereto and made a part hereof.
Section C. That the Council finds and declares that before taking any action on the proposed amendment hereinabove, all public notices and hearings required by the Zoning Ordinance have been given and had.
I hereby certify that as required by Chapter 80, Code of Ordinances, the foregoing ordinance was duly advertised and public hearings were held.
Secretary, City Plan Commission


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and was able to get the RealAudio program to play. So, here's an mp3 as an additional archive file. It's an interview featuring Larry Teeter, Rose Lynn Mangan and Adel Sirhan (Sirhan Sirhan's brother). It's an audio track from a community access cable TV show, "Over the Shoulder," with Glen Lynch; Runtime: 28:11; I doubt the show is still around. Lynch talked about using Media One studios (which was bought by AT&T and then Comcast). I'm not sure when the show was made, but I'd guess around 2000.
Some real pungent information belatedly uncapped. Again it shows our toilet paper legal system used by the forces of darkness. Democracy by assassination, business as usual.
thanks for posting the Teeter interview. Its an excellent supplement to our feature story (I've linked it on the front page) and very interesting in general as well.
I'm trying to upload (2) mp3 files.
They about 7,000 kilobytes each.
For some reason once I hit "publish" in a minute or so the message comes back website not responding.
imc volunteer, I saw your link. You're welcome. :-) I knew folks here would dig it. Maybe you can comment on builder123's question or flag it for others to look at. I had the exact same problem. I assumed it was due to the size of the file. So, what I did was publish the main mp3 files over on SF IMC (if you look at my html code or look at the file URLs in your browser's status bar when you put your cursor over the file links you'll notice that -- but most non-geeks wouldn't notice :-) Then, I made a tiny text file with the code to make the SF IMC-housed mp3 files stream off the DC IMC stream server, and saved that single text line as a tiny "fake" mp3 file about 2 k in size.
You'll see that link at the top of my original post. It "tricks" LA IMC software to think a full mp3 has been uploaded, gives me the little icon for the headline listings on the right of the top page and files the story appropriately under all the audio files -- i.e., my story pulls up if one clicked on the near the top-left front of the page.
builder123, follow what I'm saying with the above? These tricks are handy for situations when the server chokes on a large file. But it's also handy for reproducing and formatting a story, with the master "meaty" files housed somewhere else. For example, you could post your story over on San Diego IMC and then do one on LA IMC that links to it, either with just a generic link, or you can do real html and make it look smooth like what I did, including the "fake" tiny mp3 file in my original post above. Post here with follow-up questions if I've lost you. I'll see it.
imc volunteer, since builder123 appears to have experienced the same problem I experienced, it's probably not a fluke. It's likely either a software bug or a disk space issue. When/if I see it again, I can report the "bug" - and perhaps someone tech-side can look into this.
You're got audio for the "Kucinich – A Cure for Voter Apathy" story, eh?
I just saw your nice collection of photos. You always do great work.
If my description of how to make a "fake" file didn't make sense, feel free to just post your story to San Diego IMC and then post the URL over here for me to see it and I'll produce something nice for LA IMC and give you attribution. I enjoy listening to Kucinich speeches anyway, and I'm archiving them when I find them.
I knocked R. Kovic's speech down to 32 bit and it uploaded. Still digesting your above info.
Those with an interest in the RFK case might like to take a look at my webpage. I argue that the notorious 'girl in a polka dot dress' was Kathy Ainsworth and the man who actually shot RTK was possible her boyfriend Tom Tarrants, a man who also has an enigmatic connection to the MLK assassination.


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I can't tell you the exact moment it happened, but I'm glad it did. For six years, I'd been attending the Greater Philadelphia Christian Writers Conference and fighting my enemy, fear. Several times, I considered attending the workshops and skipping the whole editor/agent thing. While the non-fiction area flowed along, fiction left me bruised from hitting an invisible brick wall.
1) Forget about selling your book at the conference. It isn't going to happen. An editor or agent might show interest and ask for a partial or full manuscript, but no one would commit to a contract.
2) If the editor/agent isn't interested or their house doesn't publish your material, ask them to suggest another publisher.
3) Ask them about market trends.
4) A conference is about building relationships. Get to know them as people. Pray for them and encourage them.
Some of the tension left me after that phone conversation, but I still didn't quite get it. I kept reminding myself of this excellent advice throughout the conference.
As the first day progressed, it looked like my book was doomed. No one wanted to touch futuristic fiction. I'm talking non-Sci-Fi, but definitely set a few years out from now. By the third day of the conference, I wanted to cancel my last appointment. My friend, Clare, urged me to go and explain the situation to the agent.
To my great surprise, he wasn't negative about the genre. He questioned me whether or not I'd researched the marketability of my book. I think my passion came through when I told him I'd been working on these manuscripts for years; the first book is the book of my heart. I had to write it. He said he liked my first paragraph (first paragraphs are CRITICAL!) and requested the full manuscript. Afterward, I wondered if he just felt sorry for me.
Several days later, I read an article on Camy Tang's, "Story Sensei," about agents. She urged the writer to send whatever an agent requests because they don't have time to gather manuscripts or proposals they really don't want. This got me past the whole, "maybe he didn't really want it" thinking.
Before I went to the conference, I prayed the Lord would give me favor and make the right connections. Here I'd been handed a golden opportunity. Was I going to throw it away? I purposely told people, not because I wanted to brag, but because I was afraid I'd chicken out. I'm reminded of a teacher's saying, "do it afraid." So, I did it afraid. Maybe this will be the beginning of a big break; maybe not. My job is to produce the best possible manuscript and trust God with the results.
Are you ready "to do it afraid?" Do you have any stories where you almost missed a great opportunity?
What an uplifting story! Just goes to show that even when we think there's no hope, God leaves a candle burning. Hoping you hear great news from the agent, Susan!
Love the "do it afraid"! Every time I'm afraid I'll remember this! Thanks!
Praying that you will have great news on your manuscript!
What a bogeyman is fear! It's stopped me in my tracks on far too many occasions, so I work hard at staring it down.
I like that you've mentioned the leaving of results to the Lord. That was a HUGE wisdom for me to finally "get". I make plans. I work at something. I rest in the certainty that outcomes are uniquely God's.
I have the feeling that someday I'll be asking for your autograph, and reading the book reviews others write about YOUR work.
Ugh. I'm AFRAID. Why? Is it rejection? I mean, rejection isn't a exactly shock if you know anything about this business.
I'm also shy about meeting agents/editors/etc. at conferences. I don't understand this either. I'm normally an outgoing person.
The devil is using my love of writing to toss new fears at me each and every day. But God will help us, for we should not have a "Spirit of fear..."
I've been wondering about yout manuscript. I pray this is it! The big one!
I pray my experience will help those attending ACFW and other conferences.
Thank you. I think we sometimes lean on our own strength and abilities and forget that God is holding us in the palm of His hand.
I've applied this to many areas of my life. Why I couldn't put it into action here is a mystery.
Fear is a bully, and the only way to deal with a bully is to call their bluff.
When I get afraid, I stop and consider WHY I'm quaking on the inside. 1) Am I afraid of rejection? It goes with the territory. 2) What's the worst possible thing that could happen?
Even if that doesn't help, I've decided I'm going to "do it afraid."
That is so great. Thanks for telling me about this. I'm thrilled for you!
Great post! So many lessons wrapped up in one conference:) I can relate to 'doing it afraid'. Glad you had the courage to press forward. Good things are ahead for you, I'm sure!
Do it afraid... I like that Susan :) Thanks.
GREAT story, Susan! Thanks for sharing from your point of fear!
The whole "do it afraid" thinking has been on my brain recently. Helps me to remember that when I'm in God's will, He's ready to meet me when I take the step of faith towards Him!
Yes, and hopefully they'll stick!
I wish the saying was original to me. It's helped me so much.
I've found that when I step out even when I'm afraid, everything works out. Then I slap myself on the side of the head and say, "that wasn't so bad after all."
I have never given up the vision of my trilogy because I think God gave it to me. He has a warehouse full of stuff like inventions, new music, medical cures, miracles, stories, etc to give to his people. You just have to see it through all the trials and tribulations, because it won't come easy. The secret is to not grow weary and faint in well doing, because in due season we will reap the rewards Gal. 6:10.
Yay! Does he still have it? I usually feel afraid and nervous about my stories but I try not to any opportunities.
Thanks for the good word. When we take our eyes off Him and put them on the circumstances, that's when we get in trouble.
Yes, the agent still has my manuscript. He said it will take up to 4 months to send a response.
I always 'do it afraid.' That's my MO! :) I like using your worst-possible-scenario technique. That helps.
How wonderful that an agent wants to see your full mankuscript. I'm so glad that the scrpit of your heart in in such good hands. Blessings on the next move.
Sometimes it isn't until we have practically given up before a door opens. I am so excited for you!
Near the end of this years Oregon Christian Writer's conference I was tired. I didn't really feel like going to a workshop but a quiet voice inside nudged me to to bite the bullet and go to one about one sentence summaries.
During the class, everything clicked. I wrote my one sentence summary and when the teacher (also an editor) asked for volunteers, I raised my hand and shared my sentence.
After the class, she asked for the full manuscript.
If I hadn't gone to that class, I wouldn't have gotten that opportunity. YAY!
I hope you hear good news and so glad you continued on!
How exciting! Congratulations on the request for a full manuscript.
I often wonder how many opportunities we let slip through our fingers because we don't listen to His still, small voice. Distractions, fears, anxiety, and other things vie for our attention.
A pastor once told us we should attempt something so big that without God's help we would fail.
This sounds like your 'do it afraid' stance.
I've heard that saying before as well. Getting a book published certainly qualifies!


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Giuseppe Torretto o Torretti (1661 en Pagnano - 1743 en Venecia ) fue un escultor italiano de estatuas y joyas grabadas .

Trabajó principalmente en Venecia y sus estatuas se pueden encontrar en las iglesias de Santa Maria Formosa, Iglesia de Santa Maria Assunta, Santa Maria de Nazaret y San Stae, entre otras. Las paredes laterales de la Capilla Manin en Udine tienen relieves de piedra que muestran escenas de la vida de la Santísima Virgen María .  También fundó un estudio notable, que fue mantenido después de su muerte por sus nietos Giuseppe Bernardi y Giovanni Ferrari, entre cuyos estudiantes estuvo Antonio Canova .

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